Drama Andrew Scott To Headline Steven Zaillian’s 'Tom Ripley' Drama Series (Netflix)

[Kaleb]

‘Fleabag’s Andrew Scott To Headline Steven Zaillian’s Tom Ripley Drama Series On Showtime Based On Novels

Showtime has given a formal eight-episode order to Steven Zaillian’s drama series Ripley, based on Patricia Highsmith’s bestselling quintet of Tom Ripley novels, with Andrew Scott, hot off his starring turn on the Emmy-winning second season of Fleabag, set to star in the title role. Oscar and Golden Globe winner and Emmy nominee Zaillian (Schindler’s List, The Night Of) will write and direct the entire first season.

 

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‘Ripley’ Series Moving From Showtime to Netflix

Showtime gave Ripley a series order in 2019, with Oscar winner Steven Zaillian (Schindler’s List, HBO’s The Night Of) writing and directing all eight episodes. Scott plays Tom Ripley, a grifter scraping by in early 1960s New York who’s hired by a wealthy man to go to Italy and try to convince his vagabond son, Dickie Greenleaf (Johnny Flynn), to return home. Tom accepts the job and takes a first step into a life of deceit, fraud and murder.

Dakota Fanning also stars as Marge Sherwood, who suspects the seemingly affable Tom has darker motives.

Ripley has finished filming and is in postproduction. Showtime co-produces the series with Endemol Shine North America, in association with Entertainment 360 and Filmrights. Zaillian executive produces with Garrett Basch, Guymon Casady, Ben Forkner, Sharon Levy, and Philipp Keel of Diogenes. Scott is a producer.

 

[squeekness]

Just as good as Showtime.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Hmmm. I love the casting but I have to say that it’s a bit disappointing that they are doing the same Ripley story from the movie. There are a number of Ripley books and redoing the first one feels has a “been there, done that” kinda feel to it.

 

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First Look: Andrew Scott Is a Crazy-Sexy Scammer in ‘Ripley’

Oscar-winning writer-director Steven Zaillian on casting Fleabag’s Hot Priest, the allure of black-and-white photography, and the eternal pull of Patricia Highsmith’s most insidious character: “He won’t go away.”

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[Filmfreak]

This looks great! I'm surprised that they went with a black and white show, as I can't remember a modern show being shot entirely like that, but I love the idea.

I've seen both the Matt Damon and the Alain Delon adaptations, but unless the reviews are abysmal I'm definitely checking this out as well.

 

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[Deck Rickard]

It looks really good; filming it in black and white was a brilliant idea. I still worry though that as good as it might be, it will just feel like a retread, especially after seeing Saltburn recently, which also was pretty much a Ripley remake. But Scott looks great here so I’ll definitely give it a shot.

 

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[Filmfreak]

Andrew Scott was fantastic and the visuals are some of the best I've seen in any show. Simply gorgeous looking! I hope they make more black and white stuff for TV and streaming. It had a couple of unrealistic moments that hit weird but overall it was very good and the best out of all live actions adaptations of the first book.

 

[Kaleb]

Andrew Scott was fantastic and the visuals are some of the best I've seen in any show. Simply gorgeous looking! I hope they make more black and white stuff for TV and streaming. It had a couple of unrealistic moments that hit weird but overall it was very good and the best out of all live actions adaptations of the first book.

Came here to post similar sentiments, I can't remember when last Ive seen anything this gorgous on tv, everyone was excellent including the cat

 

[Zantera]

My girlfriend picked this for us to watch and I hadn't even heard of it before, and was unaware at the time that it was the same story as The Talented Mr Ripley (a movie I had not seen but had heard of).

I was a tiny bit sceptical going in and I wasn't sure with the black and white, but I must say after the first episode I didn't really even think about it. With each episode I got more and more into it and having finished the show about a week ago, I must say I loved it. I'm really surprised there's not more talk about it, maybe because it's set in the 60s, maybe because it's black and white, maybe because parts of it are in Italian, maybe because it's not a Game of Thrones or big watercooler discussion show. But it has stayed in the back of my mind and it just felt really special. Andrew Scott was fantastic and the cinematography was just beautiful. Definitely a "every frame is a painting" level of artistry. I'm sure you can find flaws to nitpick but I loved the slow burn nature of the show. I saw some comment complaining that the 8 episodes probably have 1 hour of people walking up stairs and it made me chuckle because I liked that!

Me and my girlfriend watched the 1999 movie last week as a way of closing our chapter on Ripley and curious to see how it compared to the show. And aside from a few details like maybe liking PSH more as Freddie than the guy in the show, we felt the show did pretty much everything better. The movie was still good, but so much of the greatness in the show came from them taking their time with certain scenes. The boat scene with Dicky was like 3 minutes in the movie and what felt like a full episode on the show.

It's a shame they probably won't make a season 2 because I would be all in! Andrew Scott was just a joy to watch as our psychopath lead.